Several years ago, I had a bad experience at New Winchester Animal Clinic and decided to never take my animals back. Since then there has been new ownership so I decided to try again.
A week ago, we... Read More
Several years ago, I had a bad experience at New Winchester Animal Clinic and decided to never take my animals back. Since then there has been new ownership so I decided to try again.
A week ago, we became the proud parents of an abandoned baby kitten. On Sunday, we weighed him and he was 5 ounces. On Monday, we got him wormed and got the eye medicine. On Wednesday, I took him in just to get him checked out to make sure everything was going well. He was up to 8 ounces!! He was the size of a 1 week old kitten but developmentally 4 weeks old. He was rambunctious, happy, and growing rapidly. I ONLY took him because he was SO small.
At that appointment he was 8 ounces, they decided he had an upper respiratory infection and prescribed him .5 ml of Clavamox. If you look at the uses for Clavamox, it's for Skin Infections and UTI's. Neither of which he had. We went home, I gave him his first dose (which he did NOT like) and we went on our merry way.
The next day, he didn't eat as much as normal but I just assumed it was because I had a babysitter for him rather than taking care of him myself all day. I gave him his 2 doses for the day. On Friday morning, I knew something was very wrong. I rushed him to the vet. A different vet saw him and said that she didn't know why he was prescribed Clavamox because it's a very harsh medicine for a malnourished kitten. She prescribed him Amoxicillin and said to start it the next day, IF he survived the night. He was doing very bad. He had already lost weight in a very short period of time.
When I was checking out, they verified the dosage I was supposed to give him on the amoxicillin because they wanted to ensure I knew the difference between .7 ml and .07 ml. The problem, they showed me .17 ml. I called them out on it and they verified with the dr. Their response was "Oh sorry, the dr is really busy and she put the wrong thing".
This rang big bells in my head. I knew the baby was dying so I went home and did my research to see if there was anything I could do. What I found was that they prescribed him .5 ml of Clavamox and it should have been .05!! I verified the bottle and found that it wasn't an error that I had misunderstood but they had truly prescribed him 10 times the amount he should have been. They overdosed him and sent him into irreversible organ failure.
August passed away on Saturday morning. New Winchester Animal Clinic killed him by over prescribing him a medicine that wasn't even for the respiratory infection they claim he had AND giving him 10 times the amount he should have had.
So, if you want to know what vet to NOT use, if you love your pet, do NOT use New Winchester Animal Clinic. If you do, verify all antibiotics by researching before giving them to your beloved pet, or you could be burying your animal, as our family did August. Read Less